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Gill, John, 1697-1771 • SECTION 177

Nu 16:30

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Nu 16:30

and their households and their tents; not their houses and their tents, as the Septuagint and some other versions; for though the word signifies houses, and is often used for them, yet here it must signify families, their wives, and children; since they had no houses, but dwelt in tents, all which were swallowed up with them:

and all the substance that was in their possession; gold, silver, cattle, household goods, and whatever they were possessed of:

or was at their feet {c}; or which followed them, their living creatures; or was for them, as Aben Ezra interprets it; for, their use, service, and necessity: and this was done

in the midst of all Israel; openly and publicly, they beholding it, as follows; and therefore should be rendered, "before all Israel" {d}; and, besides, the tents of Dathan and Abiram, Reubenites, were not in the midst of Israel.

{c} Mhylgrb rva "quae erat in pedibus eorum", Pagninus, Montanus, Vatablus. {d} brqb "coram omni Israele", Noldius, p. 212. No. 975.

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